Author Archives: Bob

Four Confirmations I have confirmed bookings for four courses upcoming from April, on The Canterbury Tales, W.B. Yeats, Icelandic Sagas, and late Shakespeare.  Details of the courses and the texts you’ll want to acquire if you’re planning on attending can be … Continue reading

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A New Article

Arena Magazine has just published another essay of mine, titled ‘Humility’.  Apart from my scribbles, there’s a lot of excellent writing in this issue (no. 134), so it’s well worth a look. Humility

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Introduction to Old English II

We’ll be picking up where we left off before Christmas, with a bit more of Ælfric’s Colloquy to get us into the grammatical mood, then on to other prose texts, ending (I hope) with Bede’s famous account of the poet Cædmon. … Continue reading

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The Poetry of W.H. Auden

Auden can sometimes seem a bit overshadowed by his many illustrious contemporaries and peers, who included T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. Yikes! Yet his poems are suffused with a warm intelligence and genial humanity, expressed in a … Continue reading

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The MLS Refectory: First Sessions in 2015

The MLS Refectory is a lunch-time series of one-hour poetry sessions that meets on Wednesdays 1-2 pm in Ross House.  The 2014 sessions were a great success I’m very much hoping to see continue.  Bring your lunch, your curiosity and … Continue reading

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Tree and Star

The best of the season to all who’ve participated or expressed interest in this year’s (and next’s!) MLS courses.  You’ve helped to make this whole year something of a Christmas party for me, for which I thank you all heartily.  Since, … Continue reading

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‘Hoom, Hoom! Let Us Not Be Hasty’

Here’s a PDF of my latest contribution to Arena Magazine no. 131, which we just launched at Readings in Hawthorn tonight. Arena Magazine no. 131 EndNote and End Times

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New Sessions for 2014

The Melbourne Literature Seminars Refectory  12 individual 1-hour sessions beginning 6 August An initial series of 12 1-hour luncthime sessions, each dedicated to a poem or poems by one poet.  The fee for each will be $10 payable on the … Continue reading

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Texts for New Courses August/December 2014

 Text for Malory’s Morte D’Arthur If you’re interested in this course and  want to get a jump on the reading, I suggest you acquire the following edition: Le Morte D’Arthur: the Winchester Manuscript, ed. Helen Cooper.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.  ISBN 9780199537341 … Continue reading

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Further Reading . . .

I could get used to this! Arena Magazine (no. 129) has just published a slimmed down version of my essay on the guilty pleasures of reading Ayn Rand and the dire impact her acolytes had on later twentieth-century conomics and … Continue reading

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